Part of The Poetry Society of New York's Weekly Virtual Workshop Series.

With poet Gabriel Miranda!

Walt Whitman is one of the most well known Transcendentalist poets. His work made the untenable sublime accessible with his literary voice still whispering to modern readers through Leaves of Grass. Though, many are unaware that Transcendentalism was inspired by the then recently translated works of Persian mystics like Hafiz, Rumi, and Shams. Whitman and his contemporaries did not embrace the sublime alone - they drank from the wineskins of Middle Eastern mysticism. Join us for a virtual exploration of mystic legacies in one of the most well known poets of the 19th century and be inspired to write your own mystic poem.

About the Instructor: Gabriel Miranda is an emergent two-spirit Puerto Rican poet and religious anthropologist living in NYC. He has won a first place prize at Empyrean Literary Magazine for poetry, has published in two literary journals, and wrote as a poet in residence at Woodward Residency. He spends his days contemplating the threads between what was ancient and is now modern as he weaves a new dream of creative expression.

* *This workshop will take place on Zoom.**